When You ’ Re the Establishment

So this small package arrives at my office, addressed to “Anniken Goldstein.” Two Goldsteins work in my office, my Bride/Empress and myself, so she took the liberty of opening it up, and extracting a Darth Vader head coffee cup from a carefully bundled straw package. There was no accompanying note; the return address indicated that none was needed. Everyone from my receptionist to my office manager looked at the cup and chuckled. It was a “Thank You” from an associate, Lynn. It wasn’t for organizational or application-level advice that I had given him. He sent me a gift, thanking me for a lifelong of “Guidance, protection and mentorship.”